Bush Studies
Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism—for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all …
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Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism—for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all …
Teacher Resource EssayBarbara Baynton was born in the Hunter Valley town of Scone, New South Wales, in 1857. In the 1890s, financially secure from her marriage to the retired surgeon Thomas Baynton, she began writing short stories, poetry and articles for the Bulletin. …
View Books by Barbara BayntonSet among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three …
Teacher ResourceThe Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an aging New York …
Teacher Resource EssayNam Le’s first book, The Boat, received the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize (Best Writing Award), the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award, among other honours. It was …
View Books by Nam LeA timeless collection of stories exploring physical and psychological boundaries, some tentatively …
Honest, ironic, at times self-mocking, as uncompromising as it is distincitive, the voice which runs…
Born in Melbourne in 1933, Fay Zwicky began publishing poetry and short stories as an undergraduate at Melbourne University. She has been a concert pianist and was a Senior Lecturer in English literature at the University of Western Australia. She …
View Books by Fay ZwickyThis definitive collection represents the impressive poetic achievement of one of Australia′s most…
Teacher Resource EssayJudith Wright was born in Armidale, New South Wales in 1915. Her collections of poetry include The Moving Image (1946), Woman to Man (1949), The Gateway (1953), The Two Fires (1955), Birds (1962), Five Senses (The Forest) (1963), City Sunrise (1964…
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